Word: knowleses
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When Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti, outgoing dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), was dean of engineering at the University of California-Santa Barbara, he started getting frantic calls from a man named Jeremy Knowles.
One issue is that some of the department’s classes are too large. The ratio of majors to faculty exceeds 14 in economics but falls below five in many departments. Student demand is only one factor determining how faculty slots are allocated, however. As the late FAS Dean...
Such determination was crucial for a man holding the demanding FAS deanship, which Rudenstine, who appointed Knowles to the position in 1991, called “one of those totally resistible positions.”
In the years leading up to his exit in 2002, Knowles would pull the Faculty out of a deficit and back building projects that included the refurbishment of freshman dormitories and the conversion of the old Freshman Union into a new humanities hub, the Barker Center. The reception following Knowles?...
Returning to the helm of a Faculty in turmoil in 2006, Knowles provided a steady hand, restoring the calm that had been disrupted by the Faculty’s conflict with former University President Lawrence H. Summers the year before.